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For all serious amateurs or professional photographers this is a "must" book.It explains everything that has to do with printing and not only.At the end of the book there are recommendations about useful books, organizations and institutes and also useful resources on the internet (plug-ins and so on)Don't miss this book
The printer manuals with the home printers are adequate. You pay more per print vs. Products change, computers are updated or changed or replaced; inks are expensive; and printers are (and will forever) be replaced in the shortest amount of time by manufacturers.Solution: use high end Fine Art printer services in your area. Photographers need to concentrate on that and how to set-up the the final print in Photoshop; Adobe Elements; or other software tools for photographers.Skip all books on better digital printing. I believe this is a great "book" that adds to the body of knowledge of how to achieve a better fine art print at home. What I find impractical is the idea that mastery of the printing process with digital photography is like mastering basic lab darkroom printing. home printing but IF you truly have an award winning image - you will recover your cost per print in the long run.And in the long run - digital photography is about image capture.
.touches all the fields of the process. Clear, show the workflow and plenty of tips.great election
Befroe you print, take the author's advice about calibrating your monitor, and especially about setting the brightness. the text is well written and the illustrations are printed very well and are useful. Although there is a lot of detail, it's presented well enough so that you don't drown in it. The book combines information about color management, which you get in almost any moderately advanced text, with information that's specific to printing, notably on paper selection and workflow. Apart from that, it's an excellent manual for making prints suitable for display. You do have to have familiarity with Photoshop CS 2 or later.
The only criticism I have is that the first 55-60 pages seem to have been written or perhaps revised without good editing, so there's some annoying duplication of information about paper weight and thickness, among other things. I bought this book (1) because I'm planning on buying a new printer capable of making fairly large prints and I want to get the best out of it and (2) because I've read other things Uwe Steinmueller has written and have admired his HDR photographs. It's a useful combination of topics. There's a logical progression from calibrating your printer up through printing and presenting the work.
If you drive a car you don't need to know how to work the engine but how to drive it along the road. That's it.
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